Joe's Grows

Hey there my 420 friends,
I'd like to show you the difference between a branch growing naturally, and a branch that has been supercropped.
The first picture below shows the branch on the left has lots of leaves and hasn't started growing buds yet, and the branch on the right is the one I supercropped ages ago, you can see it has buds already and they're fat and hard. The last pic is a closer shot of the supercropped bud. I'm convinced that supercropping plants makes them grow better buds.
Having said that, I'd also like to warn people that timing is key in this method of training... if you wait too long the stems are more stringy and brittle, that makes them more susceptible to break when you bend them as the next pics show. The softer stems crushed and bent easily, but the older, harder stems broke. Oops lol.
Anyway, the plants are bouncing back already so I'm not too concerned.

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Trala said:
Good morning Joe :)

I’m thinking of supercropping my Runtz Muffin. She is one week or so in flower.

Is there a “right” time to do it?
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Hey T, sorry I didn't see your message until now. For some reason I'm not getting notifications.
I think the right time is while your plants are vegging, the stems are softer and easier to manipulate. As you can see it's not ideal during flowering, I caused a lot of damage and lost a few branches this time.
 
First sign of bud rot, I break out the scythe and raze the crop. "Take the money and run, don't dick around looking for the safe."
 
So this happened today.
I decided to put Big Swiss out of her misery.

There's been days she's had no light at all, days she's had very little light, and day's she's had sporadic light.
She was slowly dying.
It was time.

The tent will be out of service for a while.
Once it's back in action I'll start a new grow.

I'll be upgrading the solar system with more reliable and powerful components in the near future, but unfortunately I can't get some of the parts I need at the moment (out of stock), so depending on how long the supplier takes to restock....... :eye-roll:

In the meantime I'll just concentrate on the outdoor girls

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A shame about the light limitation problems Joe, hopefully you'll soon have the parts you need to give the girls the amount of light they need.
 
Stunger said:
A shame about the light limitation problems Joe, hopefully you'll soon have the parts you need to give the girls the amount of light they need.
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Thanks Stunger, they'll turn up sooner or later.
It wouldn't be so bad if the weather was nicer, I could put her outside to finish. Unfortunately, given the constant rain and high humidity we've been getting lately, that's not possible right now. Mother nature strikes again lol
 
In case anyone was wondering how the weather is going...

It's still raining here in Hawkes Bay, and one of our main cities (Auckland) is currently in a state of emergency because of severe flooding, 245mm in 24 hrs. 2000 people are stranded in our largest airport because of severe flooding in the area. Slips, blocked roads, power cut, etc, etc.

So yeah, it's pretty bad...
 
The rain finally stopped.
The river came up, but nothing catastrophic, this time... it's normally about 15-20 feet below where it is in the pics. As you can see the dogs aren't very impressed they can't go for a swim lol.
The girls look ok despite the weather. I could probably give the one on the right some more nitrogen, I'm thinking about top dressing with comfrey mulch. Good idea?

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stinker said:
Beautiful countryside, JJ. Those plants are beasts. It looks like the sun wants to stay out.
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Thanks stinker, I'm pretty lucky to live where I do.
They're beasts alright, hopefully the buds are beastly too :cheesygrinsmiley:
I'm hoping the sun's out for good for the rest of summer now, not going to hold my breath though.
 
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